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About the IBM travelstar 40 GB GNX 5,400 rpm..
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I Just installed it in my PBti 400/384 MB running Jag. I installed three partitions (system/applications/documents), very happy with performance:
Xbench overall:
54.66, old 10 GB
59.99, new GNX, additionally the system is much more reponsive, start up time was reduced in about 20-25 sec, and applications load much faster.
My only concern is about noise which may be distracting from time to time. have you appreciated noise problems with your GNX
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Put one into my Ti400 too.. very nice.. too bad you get use to the extra speed so fast :-)
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Just a question is this the same HD as in the Ti800?
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Originally posted by Titom:
Put one into my Ti400 too.. very nice.. too bad you get use to the extra speed so fast :-)
Just 48 h and playing with a PBti 1GHz and I feel slow again. I'll have to get use to it because this machine has to last another 12 months (minimun)
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Xbench is not an adequate program because it does not do cached testing at all. The GNX has an 8 MB cache, vs. 2 MB or less on other drives.
Anyways, I've never used it, but one poster here swapped out his original drive from a GHz TiBook for the GNX and then swapped the old one back in. The GNX was too loud for him.
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Originally posted by Eug:
Xbench is not an adequate program because it does not do cached testing at all. The GNX has an 8 MB cache, vs. 2 MB or less on other drives.
Anyways, I've never used it, but one poster here swapped out his original drive from a GHz TiBook for the GNX and then swapped the old one back in. The GNX was too loud for him.
Doesn't this IBM model have that fluid "bearing" that's supposed to mitigate or eliminate the annoying whining pitch whenever the drive spins (which is almost constantly)? Or are we talking about some other noise(s)?
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I, ASIMO.
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Originally posted by ASIMO:
Doesn't this IBM model have that fluid "bearing" that's supposed to mitigate or eliminate the annoying whining pitch whenever the drive spins (which is almost constantly)? Or are we talking about some other noise(s)?
I dunno if that's true or not, but he may have been talking about the noise of the heads moving. Whatever the case, the noise was significant.
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